Rahmaan Phillip is a Grammy-stage violinist and composer based in Las Vegas and Da Nang. He plays the Lady Gaga Jazz & Piano residency at Dolby Live, performed at the 64th Grammy Awards, opened NFL Sunday Night Football's 2025 season with Carrie Underwood, and played Davos for Intel. He released A Baroque Brotha's Winter in 2023 — an 11-track string-quartet record — and the same year built his own viola. In 2024 he opened Phillip Violins in Da Nang, Vietnam.
Request as txt + pdf →Rahmaan James Phillip is a violinist, violist, and composer whose career spans Las Vegas residencies, the Grammy stage, the Davos keynote stage, NFL broadcasts, and a violin school in Da Nang, Vietnam. He has played strings for Lady Gaga's Jazz & Piano residency at Dolby Live since 2019, performed with Lady Gaga at the 64th Grammy Awards on Love For Sale / Do I Love You, opened NFL Sunday Night Football's 2025 season with Carrie Underwood, and performed solo for Intel at the World Economic Forum and CES.
He has shared stages with Imagine Dragons, Jennifer Hudson, Chaka Khan, and Quincy Jones, and performed for multiple U.S. Presidents — Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter — along with the Dalai Lama, three serving prime ministers, and CEOs of Intel, IBM, Dell, and the Dallas Mavericks.
In 2023 he released A Baroque Brotha's Winter, an 11-track string-quartet record cut in Las Vegas — String Quartet no. I at its spine. The same year he built his own viola — wood sourced, varnish hand-applied, fitted in his workshop. In 2024 he opened Phillip Violins in Da Nang, Vietnam — Central Vietnam's first full-service violin shop, where he teaches, sets up, and repairs.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
"The strings cut through the residency like a blade."
Vietnam News
"Phillip's shop in Da Nang is changing what a violin education looks like in Central Vietnam."
Intel Newsroom
"A live violin walked the audience through the keynote in a way no demo could."
TEDx Da Nang
"A talk that turned into a performance and then turned the room."
NBC Sports
"The Sunday Night intro got an unmissable string treatment this season."
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